Science

For its first billion years, it was a hostile, harsh, rocky place where life did not exist. According to research, the first living organisms appeared in Earth's oceans about 3.5 billion years ago.

This property is used in an innovative method of pain treatment (local heating of tissues to a tempe ...

These droplets attach themselves to nuclei of crystallization, which can be, for example, dust parti ...

It is thanks to the fact that the liver controls the levels of ammonia and regulates plasma glucose ...

It can produce static electricity when negatively charged by applying friction. Because of that, ancient Greeks named amber “elektron,” which became the basis for the word electricity.

They can turn yellow because of unprocessed bilirubin, which is a by-product of the catabolism of heme (a precursor to hemoglobin).

In some species, the pigment melanin may play a role in extracting energy from ionizing radiation such as gamma radiation.

It is made of tectonic plates that are constantly moving. Earthquakes may occur in zones where these ...

On its surface, there are both geologically young areas and much older, darker, and covered with many craters.

Its ancient names(electrum in Latin and ēlektron in Ancient Greek) are derived from the Ancient Greek word ēlektōr, which means "shining sun".